When writing about people with disabilities in the labor force, we spend a lot of time talking about how technology aids them in performing daily tasks, navigating the workplace, and communicating with customers and colleagues. But Drake Bennett’s article in Tuesday’s Bloomberg Businessweek examines a job opportunity where people with disabilities can aid in the [...]
Massachusetts added 9,100 jobs in February, according to this story by New England Cable News reporter, Peter Howe. The state’s 6.9% unemployment rate is one of the best in the nation and is much better than the overall national rate of 8.3%. Such figures prompted a recent guest op-ed in The Boston Globe, appealing to [...]
The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) kicked off its national “Should Be Made in America” campaign on Monday, designed to encourage state and local governments to use domestic labor and resources rather than outsourcing to other countries. BusinessNewsDaily.com contributor Chad Brooks writes that the AAM launched its campaign at the site of the San Francisco-Oakland [...]
One of the more provocative excerpts from Kaliya Franklin’s commentary, “Remploy, disabled workers and political correctness,” published earlier this month on the independent political website, politics.co.uk, concerned media coverage of the story that more than 1,700 people with disabilities would be losing their contract manufacturing jobs. After a blow-by-blow account of the BBCNews24 broadcast rife [...]
News that more than half of England’s Remploy factories were targeted for closure sent shockwaves across Great Britain earlier this month, even as some government officials argued that it would eventually present better employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Remploy is a British government-subsidized organization that primarily employs people with disabilities. The video portion of [...]
A Huffington Post editorial written last week by Jay Pelosky offered an upbeat perspective on the rebound of America’s manufacturing sector, both in the short-term and for the future. Pelosky’s bio identifies him as an investment strategy expert for J2Z Advisory LLC who also sits on the board of the World Policy Institute. In his [...]
A recent dispatch by Reuters correspondent Scott Malone revealed top executives from some of America’s leading manufacturers second-guessing earlier decisions by themselves and their peers to outsource labor. According to Malone, General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt’s annual letter to shareholders said the factors in the manufacturing equation have changed in a way that makes [...]
PBS senior correspondent Judy Woodruff has been a longtime advocate for people with disabilities. Back in February, we brought attention to her PBS NewsHour segment with Rachel Simon, author of the bestselling novel, The Story of Beautiful Girl. Last week, she ventured onto the PBS.org Rundown blog to post “Two Hopeful Signs for Americans with [...]
Statecollege.com columnist Patty Kleban’s March 15 article, “Americans with Disabilities Act Kicks Into High Gear,” was one of many fine essays lost amid the last-minute news that hotels would receive a 60-day extension to bring pools into compliance with the new ADA accessibility regulations. For accessibility advocates like Kleban, who is also an instructor at [...]
On the day when updates to the 1991 American with Disabilities Act’s regulations governing public accessibility were supposed to go into effect, the Justice Department granted hotels a 60-day extension regarding adjustments to swimming pools and whirlpools. USA TODAY travel writer Barbara De Lollis wrote the extension was something that the “hotel industry lobbied hard [...]